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Suella Braverman, formerly the Home Secretary, has recently made headlines by becoming the newest Conservative Member of Parliament to defect to Reform UK. This move marks the third defection from the Conservative Party to Nigel Farage’s group in just over a week and raises the number of Reform MPs to eight. Announcing her decision at a rally in London, Braverman declared she had left the Conservative Party after thirty years, telling supporters, “I feel like I’ve come home.”
Braverman’s departure follows closely on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, two other Tory MPs who switched allegiances earlier in the month. Known as a prominent right-wing figure under the previous administration, she had long been speculated to be a possible defector to Reform. However, her formal introduction at a veterans’ event in London, made by Nigel Farage himself, came as a surprise to many. Having represented her constituency since 2015, Braverman held the role of attorney general during Boris Johnson’s tenure and was appointed Home Secretary by Liz Truss in September 2022. Her time in that office was short-lived due to a controversy involving sending official correspondence via a personal email, which prompted her resignation after only a month.
Braverman was briefly reinstated as Home Secretary by Rishi Sunak shortly after he took office, but was removed from the post the following year after publishing an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in handling pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London. At the recent Reform UK rally, she expressed strong criticism of the current state of Britain, describing the country as “broken” and immigration as “out of control.” She urged supporters to choose between continuing on a path of “managed decline” or working to “fix our country, reclaim our power, rediscover our strength.”
The Conservative Party responded to her defection by suggesting that it was somewhat inevitable, given her level of dissatisfaction with the party. A spokesman commented that while some MPs are motivated by genuine concern for their communities, others pursue personal ambition. They noted that Braverman’s previous attempt to lead the Conservative Party in 2022 resulted in a sixth-place finish, and in 2024 she failed to secure enough backing to stand for leadership again. The spokesman further remarked on her decision to join Nigel Farage, despite Farage stating the previous year that he did not want her in Reform UK. Alongside the four current MPs who have switched to Reform, roughly twenty former Conservative MPs, including ex-ministers Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries, and Jake Berry, have also joined Farage’s party since the last general election. Labour Party chair Anna Turley criticized the move by saying, “Nigel Farage is stuffing his party full of the failed Tories responsible for the chaos and decline that held Britain back for 14 years.” Similarly, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper accused Farage of recruiting “another Conservative minister with selective amnesia – one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.
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